Origins

Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) has been quite open about producing the video:

The video was not "doctored" by me - all I did was zoom in on the original from the Daily Wire. I did not 'speed up' anything.

He even published a screenshot of his video editing session, which shows edits made in order to repeat the action in close-up, and the filename of the source video clip, DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4.

I have not yet seen an authoritative analysis of the timeline, but the filename indicates that the original video clip, on which Watson based his edited version, is this: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4

This is consistent with Watson’s claim that his source material was from this tweet from The Daily Wire, dated “9:46 AM - 7 Nov 2018”, which links to the same video URL. The origin of that video clip appears to be this tweet by @ForAmerica, dated “9:34 AM - 7 Nov 2018” which also has the same video URL. The origin and history of the video is also described by Paris Martineau writing in Wired.

The first appearance of Watson’s edited version seems to be his tweet dated “5:33 pm - 7 Nov 2018”. This version runs for 15 seconds but contains only material from the original 3-second clip, with progressively zoomed and cropped replays of the “crucial moment”, which plays six times in total. This version has poorer image quality, and alternate frames are blended together.

Alteration

As for alterations: apart from the obvious crop-zoom-loop, there is a duplicated frame just as Acosta and the woman make contact (frames 2 and 3 below). This was noted by digital forensic and image analysis expert Hany Farid in reports from Wired and The New Yorker. Farid further noted:

This could have been done intentionally, but could also be the result of transcoding that changes the frame rate

and:

I don’t see unambiguous evidence that it has been doctored.

This repeated frame occurs in both the zoomed and unzoomed cuts in Watson’s video:

There is another duplicated frame a little later (frames 2 and 3; look carefully at the woman’s hair).

These duplicate frames appear both in the edited video tweeted by Watson and in the video issued by Sanders, but not in the DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4 source video, frames of which are shown below:

The doubled frames could be deliberate attempts to exaggerate the action, but they could also be accidental technical glitches. Watson himself has repeatedly stated that the video was not doctored, but the fact remains that the exact sequence of frames used and repeated in his video is different from the video he based his edit upon.

Origins

Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) has been quite open about producing the video:

The video was not "doctored" by me - all I did was zoom in on the original from the Daily Wire. I did not 'speed up' anything.

He even published a screenshot of his video editing session, which shows edits made in order to repeat the action in close-up, and the filename of the source video clip, DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4.

I have not yet seen an authoritative analysis of the timeline (and I would not consider the question of alteration to be “answered” without one), but the filename indicates that the original video clip, on which Watson based his edited version, is this: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4

This is consistent with Watson’s claim that his source material was from this tweet from The Daily Wire, dated “9:46 AM - 7 Nov 2018”, which links to the same video URL. The origin of that video clip appears to be this tweet by @ForAmerica, dated “9:34 AM - 7 Nov 2018” which also has the same video URL. The origin and history of the video is also described by Paris Martineau writing in Wired.

The first appearance of Watson’s edited version seems to be his tweet dated “5:33 pm - 7 Nov 2018”. This version runs for 15 seconds but contains only material from the original 3-second clip, with progressively zoomed and cropped replays of the “crucial moment”, which plays six times in total. This version has poorer image quality, and alternate frames are blended together.

Alteration

Apart from the obvious crop-zoom-loop, there is a duplicated frame just as Acosta and the woman make contact (frames 2 and 3 below). This was noted by digital forensic and image analysis expert Hany Farid in reports from Wired and The New Yorker. Farid further noted:

This could have been done intentionally, but could also be the result of transcoding that changes the frame rate

and:

I don’t see unambiguous evidence that it has been doctored.

This repeated frame occurs in both the zoomed and unzoomed cuts in Watson’s video:

There is another duplicated frame a little later (frames 2 and 3; look carefully at the woman’s hair).

These duplicate frames appear both in the edited video tweeted by Watson and in the video issued by Sanders, but not in the DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4 source video, frames of which are shown below:

That is, it does not appear that the video was altered by the White House.

So, the doubled frames could be deliberate attempts to exaggerate the action, but they could also be accidental technical glitches. Watson himself has repeatedly stated that the video was not doctored, but the fact remains that the exact sequence of frames used and repeated in his video is different from the video he based his edit upon.

Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) has been quite open about producing the video:

The video was not "doctored" by me - all I did was zoom in on the original from the Daily Wire. I did not 'speed up' anything.

He even published a screenshot of his video editing session, which shows edits made in order to repeat the action in close-up, and the filename of the source video clip, DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4.

I have not yet seen an authoritative analysis of the timeline, but the filename indicates that the original video clip, on which Watson based his edited version, is this: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4

This is consistent with Watson’s claim that his source material was from this tweet from The Daily Wire, dated “9:46 AM - 7 Nov 2018”, which links to the same video URL. The origin of that video clip appears to be this tweet by @ForAmerica, dated “9:34 AM - 7 Nov 2018” which also has the same video URL. The origin and history of the video is also described by Paris Martineau writing in Wired.

The first appearance of Watson’s edited version seems to be his tweet dated “5:33 pm - 7 Nov 2018”. This version runs for 15 seconds but contains only material from the original 3-second clip, with progressively zoomed and cropped replays of the “crucial moment”, which plays six times in total. This version has poorer image quality, and alternate frames are blended together.

As for alterations: apart from the obvious crop-zoom-loop, there is a duplicated frame just as Acosta and the woman make contact (frames 2 and 3 below). This was noted by digital forensic and image analysis expert Hany Farid in reports from Wired and The New Yorker; Farid further noted:

This could have been done intentionally, but could also be the result of transcoding that changes the frame rate

and:

I don’t see unambiguous evidence that it has been doctored.

This repeated frame occurs in both the zoomed and unzoomed cuts in Watson’s video:

There is another duplicated frame a little later (frames 2 and 3; look carefully at the woman’s hair).

These duplicate frames appear both in the edited video tweeted by Watson and in the video issued by Sanders, but not in the DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4 source video, frames of which are shown below:

These could be deliberate attempts to exaggerate the action, but they could also be accidental technical glitches. Watson himself has repeatedly stated that the video was not doctored, but the fact remains that the exact sequence of frames used and repeated in his video is different from the video he based his edit upon.

Origins

Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) has been quite open about producing the video:

The video was not "doctored" by me - all I did was zoom in on the original from the Daily Wire. I did not 'speed up' anything.

He even published a screenshot of his video editing session, which shows edits made in order to repeat the action in close-up, and the filename of the source video clip, DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4.

I have not yet seen an authoritative analysis of the timeline, but the filename indicates that the original video clip, on which Watson based his edited version, is this: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4

This is consistent with Watson’s claim that his source material was from this tweet from The Daily Wire, dated “9:46 AM - 7 Nov 2018”, which links to the same video URL. The origin of that video clip appears to be this tweet by @ForAmerica, dated “9:34 AM - 7 Nov 2018” which also has the same video URL. The origin and history of the video is also described by Paris Martineau writing in Wired.

The first appearance of Watson’s edited version seems to be his tweet dated “5:33 pm - 7 Nov 2018”. This version runs for 15 seconds but contains only material from the original 3-second clip, with progressively zoomed and cropped replays of the “crucial moment”, which plays six times in total. This version has poorer image quality, and alternate frames are blended together.

Alteration

As for alterations: apart from the obvious crop-zoom-loop, there is a duplicated frame just as Acosta and the woman make contact (frames 2 and 3 below). This was noted by digital forensic and image analysis expert Hany Farid in reports from Wired and The New Yorker. Farid further noted:

This could have been done intentionally, but could also be the result of transcoding that changes the frame rate

and:

I don’t see unambiguous evidence that it has been doctored.

This repeated frame occurs in both the zoomed and unzoomed cuts in Watson’s video:

There is another duplicated frame a little later (frames 2 and 3; look carefully at the woman’s hair).

These duplicate frames appear both in the edited video tweeted by Watson and in the video issued by Sanders, but not in the DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4 source video, frames of which are shown below:

The doubled frames could be deliberate attempts to exaggerate the action, but they could also be accidental technical glitches. Watson himself has repeatedly stated that the video was not doctored, but the fact remains that the exact sequence of frames used and repeated in his video is different from the video he based his edit upon.

Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) has been quite open about producing the video:

The video was not "doctored" by me - all I did was zoom in on the original from the Daily Wire. I did not 'speed up' anything.

He even published a screenshot of his video editing session, which shows edits made in order to repeat the action in close-up, and the filename of the source video clip, DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4.

I have not yet seen an authoritative analysis of the timeline, but the filename indicates that the original video clip, on which Watson based his edited version, is this: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4

This is consistent with Watson’s claim that his source material was from this tweet from The Daily Wire, dated “9:46 AM - 7 Nov 2018”, which links to the same video URL. The origin of that video clip appears to be this tweet by @ForAmerica, dated “9:34 AM - 7 Nov 2018” which also has the same video URL.

The first appearance of Watson’s edited version seems to be his tweet dated “5:33 pm - 7 Nov 2018”. This version runs for 15 seconds but contains only material from the original 3-second clip, with progressively zoomed and cropped replays of the “crucial moment”, which plays six times in total. This version has poorer image quality, and alternate frames are blended together.

As for alterations: apart from the obvious crop-zoom-loop, there is a duplicated frame just as Acosta and the woman make contact (frames 2 and 3 below). This was noted by digital forensic and image analysis expert Hany Farid in reports from Wired and The New Yorker; Farid further noted:

This could have been done intentionally, but could also be the result of transcoding that changes the frame rate

and:

I don’t see unambiguous evidence that it has been doctored.

This repeated frame occurs in both the zoomed and unzoomed cuts in Watson’s video:

There is another duplicated frame a little later (frames 2 and 3; look carefully at the woman’s hair).

These duplicate frames appear both in the edited video tweeted by Watson and in the video issued by Sanders, but not in the DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4 source video, frames of which are shown below:

These could be deliberate attempts to exaggerate the action, but they could also be accidental technical glitches. Watson himself has repeatedly stated that the video was not doctored, but the fact remains that the exact sequence of frames used and repeated in his video is different from the video he based his edit upon.

Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) has been quite open about producing the video:

The video was not "doctored" by me - all I did was zoom in on the original from the Daily Wire. I did not 'speed up' anything.

He even published a screenshot of his video editing session, which shows edits made in order to repeat the action in close-up, and the filename of the source video clip, DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4.

I have not yet seen an authoritative analysis of the timeline, but the filename indicates that the original video clip, on which Watson based his edited version, is this: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4

This is consistent with Watson’s claim that his source material was from this tweet from The Daily Wire, dated “9:46 AM - 7 Nov 2018”, which links to the same video URL. The origin of that video clip appears to be this tweet by @ForAmerica, dated “9:34 AM - 7 Nov 2018” which also has the same video URL. The origin and history of the video is also described by Paris Martineau writing in Wired.

The first appearance of Watson’s edited version seems to be his tweet dated “5:33 pm - 7 Nov 2018”. This version runs for 15 seconds but contains only material from the original 3-second clip, with progressively zoomed and cropped replays of the “crucial moment”, which plays six times in total. This version has poorer image quality, and alternate frames are blended together.

As for alterations: apart from the obvious crop-zoom-loop, there is a duplicated frame just as Acosta and the woman make contact (frames 2 and 3 below). This was noted by digital forensic and image analysis expert Hany Farid in reports from Wired and The New Yorker; Farid further noted:

This could have been done intentionally, but could also be the result of transcoding that changes the frame rate

and:

I don’t see unambiguous evidence that it has been doctored.

This repeated frame occurs in both the zoomed and unzoomed cuts in Watson’s video:

There is another duplicated frame a little later (frames 2 and 3; look carefully at the woman’s hair).

These duplicate frames appear both in the edited video tweeted by Watson and in the video issued by Sanders, but not in the DrasJZTWwAAU5hs.mp4 source video, frames of which are shown below:

These could be deliberate attempts to exaggerate the action, but they could also be accidental technical glitches. Watson himself has repeatedly stated that the video was not doctored, but the fact remains that the exact sequence of frames used and repeated in his video is different from the video he based his edit upon.